The Lord of the Rings discussion: Foreword and Prologue

[Lefty Scaevola]

Originally posted by Olmer
My HO is that Celeborn ultimately stayed in Middle-earth About Celeborn: "...but there is no record of the day when at last he sought the Grey Havens" - and this is a SUGGESTION that he never sailed West. [/B]

I think the last part of that sentence "and with him went the last living memory of the elder days im Middle-Earth" is unequivicable that he departed. It also would say that all other person of the first age (Cirdan, any other first age elves, Fangorn, and Bombadil!?) had left ME before him.
It say "and with him went" not "and with him would go" or any orther grammer suggesting incompleted action.